article thumbnail

Life on the Frontline: Neonatal Nursing and Pre-Hospital PIPER Retrieval

The Nurse Break

Last December I was fortunate to attend a Parliamentary breakfast in Canberra where the Australian College of Nurses (ACN) presented a White Paper; A new horizon for health service: optimizing advanced practice nursing which was endorsed by the Minister of Health. What are your nonclinical portfolios? Whats your governance structure?

Nursing 98
article thumbnail

Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

Pallimed

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

2016 145